Apparatus for cutting globoid worms.



A. T. COLLIER. APPARATUS PoR CUTTING GLoBoID WORMs. APPLIOATION FILED SEPT. 19, 1907.

Patented May 11, 1909.

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Patented May 11, 1909.

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A. T. COLLIER. APPARATUS FOB. CUTTING GLOBGID WOBMS.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 19, 1907.

Patented May `11, 1909.

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cutter or tool for acting on the blank is UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.

anflnrrnifrrronrs Coruna-QF s'r. AEBANS, ENGLAND, AssIGNoR or ONE-FIFTH To HARRY D l cutting glohod l0 produced..

ner that th SEYMOUR FOSTER, OF LONDON, ENGLAN n. ezines.

nieuwe ron err-mmsenonorn worms.

' -Patented May 11, 1909.

Appleman led September 19,1907. Serial No. 898, 681. l

' To all whoraitf may. concern:

Be it'know'n that 1, ARTHUR THoMAs COL- LIER, a subjectof the Kin of Great-Britain, residing 'at St. Albans, Il land, have inventedcrtamnew and useu Im rovements Y`1n Apparatus for Cutting Globoi 5 Worms, of

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the followmg is a specification. his invention relates to a paratus for Wo'rms of the' d-wherein there is aframe in'which a worm blank shaft is, rotatably mounted and is `connected by gearing to a pivotally-mounted tool carriage, the latter bearing a rotary cutter tool toact upon the blank on the Worm blank shaft.

According. to the present invention, the

mounted upon, tool carriage in such man-- 'e axls of rotation 1s arranged in a direction corresponding substantially to the angle of the threadto be out, means being` provided if desired for adjusting such angle to permitthreads of iferent angles `to be. Inythe accompanying drawings Figure 1 is. a front elevation, line W, W, Fig. 2; line X, X, F' 1, w1 moved; and ig. 3 an end elevation, partly in section on. the line Y, Y, Fig. 1, showin a machine constructed according to my said invention. Fig. 4 is a plan view of a portion. of a ear cutting machme wherein the cutter s ingle is adjustable according to the an le o -the thread to be cut; Fig. 5 is a-front e evation of. acomplete machine embodyin the adjustable mountin for the cutter spin le as shownln Flg. 4. ig. 6 1s a sectional view of another manner ig. 2 a section on the erent angles.

. -a is the frame of the machine; b is a se mental Worm-Wheel which is rotatab y mounted on. a tud-shaft c. and gears with a his worm, which should be accurately cut and which may be termed the master-worm, 'is mounted on a shaft e turning in bearingsuf, fin the frame a and provided with a pu ey 1g whereb it ma be conveniently turned. desire a glo oid worm may be employed as a master worm. The shaft e is connected by spur gearing 15,7', 7c, m to-a shaft n which rotates in bearings o, o on the frame a and to which is fixedv ythread cut on partly in section on the 'th the worm-blank re- Like letters. indicate corresponding parts throughout the drawings.

the Worm-blank?.` The bearings o, o are adjustably mounted on the frame a and are secured in position by means of bolts g, g, set-screws g', g and distance-pieces r, r. The stud-shafts of the spur-wheelsj, 7c are adjustably supported on a frame s which is pivotally mountedon the boss of one of the earingsf and is provided with a stud t mov.- ing :in an arc shaped slot in a bracket u on the frame a, the said stud being :fitted with a clamping nut v whereby the frame s vcan be secured 1n any desired position. By changing one or more of the gear-wheels y', k, m, or by replacing the-gear-wheels 7', c by asingle wheel, the speed oi the shaft n can vbe in- 70 creased or diminished or its direction of rotation can be reversed relatively 'to the shaft e. Thus if the train connecting the shafts e, n comprises an even number of wheels, the the blank will be inthe same direction as that on the master-worm,- if however said train com rises anpdd or uneven number of Wheels, tlhe thread cut will be in the opposite directionto that of the master-Worm. B this means either a right or a left-handed t read can vbe cut from one master-worm Whether the latter be of rightor left-handed thread.

By rotating. the two worm shafts at the same speed in an appropriate mannen-andarranging the rota cutter on the pitch line of the worm wheg or se ment, a globoid worm will be cut having t e same pltch as the master worm. If, however, the rotary cutter is arran ed at a reater radius than that of the pitc circle o the worm wheel or segment, a globoid worm will be cut of proportionately coarser pitch than that vof the master Worm. Should the rotary cutter be arranged at a smaller radius than that of the pitch circle of the worm'wheel or segment,

' the pitchof the globoid worm cut will be less' than that\of`the master worm so that an inaccuracies in the latter will be correspond-7 ingly diminished. Should the worm shafts4 bey rotated at different speeds, the pitch of the globoidworm Will be varied in inverse proportion to the speed of the shaft support- `lng the blank.

By thls means, it is possibleV tov cut globoid Worns of any desired number of threads usi the same master Worm. Thns, if the blan Irotates at half the speed of the master worm'and should the rotary cutter be arranged on the pitch circle of the worm Wheel or segment, the thread cut on 1w the blank will have a pitch double that of the master` worm.

By returningthe p arts to theirv initial 'position and then .moving the cutter an cutter only, relativ and the blank throu ihg to the pitch of te master worm, a second thread caribe cut in the s ace between the convolutions of the thread Erst cut. By maintaining the radius of oscillation of the rotary cutter constant, and rotating the blank at half, one-third and one-quarter the speed of the master worm, respectively, a serles ofgloboid worms can be cut which will all ear with the same worm wheel. n the wormwheel b are. provided guides w, w between which moves a slide :v that is forked at 'ts outer end toreceive a rotary cutter y mounted on a s indie z turning in suitablebearings in the imbs of` said fork. This s indle z bears a gear-wheell that gears wit a ear-wheel 2 which is mounted on a stud-sha 3 on the slide x and gears with ly to the master worm 'a gear-wheel 4 which is also mounted on' a with a/belt-pulley the 'distance stud-shaft 5 on the slide :c and is provided 6 whereby rotary motion may be imparted to the cutter ly through the gear-wheels 1, 2, 4. The slide x is provided with a nut 7 cting with a leading screw 8 rotatably mo ted on the worm-wheel b, so as to enable the distance of the cutter'from the axis of the worm-wheel t'o be'varied as desired. The stud-shaft 5 is preferably-arranged as shown so that, when in its mid-po-7 sition, it ,is substantially coaxial with the worm-wheel b. By this means, variationin of the center of the ulley' 6 from |the center of the driving pu ey'(not shown) fduring the rotation of the wormwheel b will be reduced to a minimum.

The operation ofmy improved machine 'is as follow :-The velocity-ratio ofthe shafts e, 'n is adjusted to the -reqluired value by suitable selection of geareels h, j, 7c, .m and the milling cutter 'y is set to the required ra! dius by means of the leadin screw 8. Rotary motion is then im arte e. g. bymeans of the pulleys g," 6, at t e required speeds, to the worm d and cutter y, so that the cutter y will move in the required curvilinear path at such a rate as to form a thread or threads of the desired pitch on the blankv p. The thread-groove may be cut to the required depth at one passage of the cutter y along the blank, or it may be arran ed to pass twice or oftener along said blank or this purpose. After the thread-groove or rooves is or are cut to the required depth, t e rotary cutter can be replaced by a rotary'polishing -bob or other device for polishing the surface of the globoid worm, for example, in. cases where it is desiredv to use the worm withl worm-wheels. having rotary ball or roller teeth.

The worm-shafts e, lnl and'worm-segment b dfwormwheel or segment, lorthe h an angle correspondbe. driven direct `pensatefor the axesof the `driving ulley and of said cutter.

able means, suc

- desired angle.

may be rotated in any other suitable manner, I by means of va weighted cord for example,

lound on-a drum mounted on -one of th afts, or by means of a spring. They may h Wever be rotated by spuror other .positive gearing. The rotary cutter instead of being driven through caring 1, 2, 4 asshown ma Ty by a beltarran a position and wlth its driving pu ey atsuch a distance fromthe said` cutter that the spring of the belt will be suflicientto com the variation inthe distance be. tween the cutter during the tra-vel o In'the case where the globoid worm is to the cutter will form to the rollers ern loyed.

Fi 4 shows means or mounting the cutter spin le whereby the latter is ada ted to cut worms in which the thread or t are of very long pitch, 'the angle of the in this instance departing considerabl from a right angle to the axis o the Worm. n this arrangement the stud shafts 3 and 5 and the fork- 9 in which the cutterspindle z is journaled are mounted on an auxiliary-frame 10 which has an arc-shaped surface 11 fitting into a corres ondingly shaped seat or guide e az, the axis of said arc-shaped'. through the and suit-` v 12 on thev sli surface tpreferably extending center o the ball-shaped cutter y,

l1' as a'setserew 13 is provided for securin the auxiliary frame' 10 in such a position t at theaxis of rotation of the cutter 'y stands at or substantially at the angle of the -thread relatively to the axis of the Worm, so that the spindle z and its bearin s will clear the cut threador threads.

ig. 45 shows a mach vas illustrated in Fig. 1 adjustable mounting for the spindle being applied thereto.

ig. -6 illustrates another mounting whereby the an le of the cutter spindle may be adjusted'. this instance, only the fork 9 carrying) the bearing arms ofthe spindle z is adjusta le, and for this reason it is mounted on a sleeve 14 which is turnable in a cylindrical recessformed in the top of the slide z. This sleeve is provided with an annular groove which enga es screw `15 and on t e gentially arranged pin 15', tin rotary but preventing axial movement of t esleev'e. 14 and the fork 9 of the drawings,

otherv side with a tanare turnable about an axis ed in suc eads is orthread ine of the same type t e on one side witha setso I work Withaworm-wheel having roller-teeth,

be made of corresponding the latter permit- In this construction the sleeve extending through the center of the worm,

and the set-screw and consequently the spindle thereon at any The spindle zin this case 1s provided with another bevel wheel-17 xed on a shaft 18,

the latter extendin axially of the sleeve 14 and hence the sha 18 and its cooperating a bevel wheel 16 gearing with 15 serves to lock the sleeve v ate shaft being rotated parts may rotate about the same axis as that about Which the fork 9 turns, the intermedithrough the medium of another pair of bevel Wheels 1.9 and 20, the latter being driyen. by a equivalent 6. In some cases, moreover, the segmental-Worm Wheel b and Worm d may be replaced by' beve1, spur` or other suitable gearing.

The shafts em, may beprovided with ball or other suitable bearings to take the end thrust from the worms.

In cases Where the parallel shafts and Wormfwheel are driven by a weight or spring,

, I.. a rotary cutter-spindle, 25

a suitable stop or rest can be provided for arresting the motion thread being cutis finished.

at I claim is 1. A machine for cutting globoid worms, said mac 'ne comprising a frame, av worm- Wheel rotatably mounted in said worm rotatably mounted in said frame and gearing with said Worm-Wheel, a blank-shaft,

ter-spmdle, a frame supporting said bearbelt-wheel or its of the tram when the frame, a

bearings for said cutconnecting said blank-shaft and said Worm, f

and means for rotating said Worm.

2. A machine for cutting loboid Worms, said machine com rising a igrame, la worm blank shaft rotatab y mounted in said frame,

a tool' carriage pivotally mounted in said' frame, a tool rotatably mounted in said tool carriage in osition for acting on a Worm blank on sai shaft, means for adjusting the angle of the axis of said tool relatively to said tool carriage and gearing Worm blank s aft and said tool carriage.

connecting said In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand-in presence oftwo subscribing Witmesses.4 Y

ARTHUR Witnesses:

Gao. HARnIsoN, CONRAD K.VALKENsTE1N. p

THOMAS 1 COLLIER. 

